Re: [patch 1/2] Staging: silicom: add some range checks to proc functions

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:56:00AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If you tried to cat more than 255 characters (the last character is for
> the terminator) to these proc files then it would corrupt kernel memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Actually sorry for this, I meant to check first before sending.  Is
it possible to do a zero size write to a proc file?  In sysfs it
isn't but I'm not sure about proc.

I may need to redo this.

regards,
dan carpenter

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